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...relatively short time on the University scene, the local AVC chapter led a hectic life, eventually rising to a position of tremendous influence. It fought for cheap housing projects, opposed loyalty oaths, and organized a political action school...
Most of the AVC's battles, however, were waged in the field of housing. Here, the objectives were more apartments, some sort of rent stabilization, and maintenance of the housing units, which the University threatened to close down. Before it came to Harvard, the organization fought for veteran's housing, and tried to get the University to open developments at Jarvis Field and Fort Devens. Harvard soon complied, setting up 60 units at each location...
...When the AVC became a part of the University in August, 1946, Provost Buck, calling it the first such organization in the school's history, asked it to work with the Veteran's Counselling Bureau to handle veteran's problems...
...like those at Devens and Jarvis, the housing situation grew more and more serious until in 1947 the chapter was forced to send urgent letters to all students who lived outside of the University, and those who were leaving or graduating, asking them to put their rooms on the AVC file. The room would then be given to a veteran. The idea was repeated in March, 1949 to help those forced out of the Jarvis and Devens units, both of which were slated to close...
...urgent problem developed in March, 1950 when the University began closing down most of the subsidized veteran's housing units Led by chairman Roy F. Gootenberg '49, now a teaching fellow in Government, an aroused AVC charged that Harvard might not fully understand the factors involved, and immediately conducted a survey to determine whether the administration's decision was based on a complete comprehension of the current situation...